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Not your father’s trawler

Today’s models are faster, more luxurious and technologically advanced, but can they be called ‘trawlers’?

Nordic Tug 37 The sun was just rising as we spotted the R “2” bell off the entrance to Great Salt Pond at Block Island, R.I. We had been at sea for 26 hours, running 210 nautical miles directly from Cape May, N.J. Leaving our home port of Annapolis, Md., a couple of days earlier, we were about to start our summer cruise, exploring New England in the comfort of our beloved Grand Banks 42.

Trawler Specifications

Chris Landry gives specifications for six popular trawlers.

A hybrid approach to trawlers

Greenline Yachts has sold 300 of its energy-efficient cruisers (the 33 is shown here) and has turned its focus to the United States.

It was the yacht’s profile that attracted Jeff Leco to the Greenline 40, not its quiet, clean diesel-electric hybrid propulsion.

“It has sort of a light, European and slightly modern look to it without being totally austere,” says Leco, 46, of Ellicott City, Md., who uses the Slovenian-built boat on Chesapeake Bay day trips and overnights with his wife and two small children.

The cruising-under-power lifestyle

You have questions? We have the answers.

By the Editor-in-Chief of PassageMaker magazine

Twin alternatives to traditional trawlers

For the past five years, Larry Graf — the founding brainchild of Glacier Bay Catamarans — has been building his revolutionary Aspen C90, a 28-foot, single-engine cruiser featuring an asymmetrical proa hull.

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